Complete with mountains and a reddish hue, the desert certainly looks like it can fill in for Mars.

That's probably why so many Hollywood productions turn to Wadi Rum for movies set on Mars.

2000's "Red Planet" and 2013's "The Last Days on Mars" both used the desert as a stand in for the Martian surface.

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Director Ridley Scott even used Wadi Rum in his alien movie "Prometheus." A few other movies which have been partially filmed in the desert include "Lawrence of Arabia" and "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen."